 Work — work — work ! In the dull December light, And work — work — work! When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the Spring.  Poems - Halaman 47oleh Thomas Hood - 1857 - 388 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 halaman
...primrose, and the violet-bud,— They are the dearest flowers to me.|| Hood's sempstress utters her " Oh but to breathe the breath of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet !'4i And in some miscellaneous stanzas of his we read how he Like Hope, it show'd its blossoms in the... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 halaman
...In the dull December light ; And work — work — work When the weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 halaman
...the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. IX. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 halaman
...work In the dull December light; And work — work — work When the weather is warm and bright; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet; With the sky above my head,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 halaman
...! In the dull December light, And work—work—work, When the weather is warm and bright— While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, IX. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet—- With the sky above my head... | |
 | 1869 - 620 halaman
...mute expression — and yet an expression stronger than any language could frame — of that longing ' to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above their heads, And the grass beneath their feet,' '53 which the town-bound poor feel — a longing which... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 halaman
...the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright ; no While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hoar To feel as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 halaman
...the dull December light, And work — work — work, •When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 halaman
...the dull December light, And work, — work, — work, When the weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...above my head And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one1 short hour To feel as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a... | |
 | 1868 - 736 halaman
...as they used to sound in those other gardens of my youth, in far away halfforgotten England. " While underneath the eaves, The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." And I am sorry— sorry for it all, for the"daysthat are no more." For pleasant, smiling, fragrant... | |
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